Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics

Contents:

1. Introduction, Kakuya Matsushima and William P. Anderson

PART I: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
2. Railways and Regional Growth, Dispersion and Concentration in Scandinavia over 150 Years
Hans Westlund

3. Regional Economic Impacts of a Transportation Infrastructure Project: The Herb Grey Parkway
William P. Anderson, Hanna Maoh and Charles Burke

4. Modeling Transportation in General Equilibrium
Gautam Ray

5. Comparative Assessment of Public Transportation Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development
Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes

PART II: MODELS FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND POLICY
6. Second Best Toll Pricing of Highway Taking Account of Maintenance Costs
Shunsuke Segi and Kiyoshi Kobayashi

7. Armington Elasticities in Multi-Regional Trade for Transport Policy in Japan
Keisuke Sato and Atsushi Koike

8. Empirical Analysis of Transport Cost for Interregional Trade
Yoko Konishi, Se-il Mun, Yoshihiko Nishiyama and Ji-eun Sung

9. Airport Charges, Infrastructure Life Cycle, and Economic Impact: A Case Study of Hong Kong
Yulai Wan and Anming Zhang

PART III: STUDIES ON THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF CITIES
10. Synergy Effects of Face-to-face Interactions and Urban Spatial Structure
Toshimori Otazawa and Yuki Ohira

11. Endogenous Formation of Urban Structure with Residential Sorting
Kakuya Matsushima and Kiyoshi Kobayashi

12. A Discount Point System and Vitalization of a Commercial District with Small Retail
Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Masamitsu Onishi

13. Private Purpose Inter-Regional Travels: An Integrator of Historical Inter-Regional Migrations
Makoto Okumura and Hiromichi Yamaguchi

14. A Model of Commuting and the Economic Milieu. An Analysis Using Aggregated Data for Sweden
Thomas Laitila, Marie Lundgren and Michael Olsson

PART IV: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
15. Internal and External Knowledge and Development in Regions
Ake E Andersson and Boerje Johansson

Dedication: Professor Kiyoshi Kobayashi. Kakuya Matsushima and Bill Anderson

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• Economia urbana
• Indústrias dos transportes
• Geografia regional

Knowledge economy; transportation; regional development; infrastricuture